Time zone: Eastern (U.S.) 14 upcoming eventsAll times Eastern (U.S.) July 11, 2024, 7:00 pm - July 11, 2024, 8:00 pm • Uncategorized Join the SPJ Freelance Community for a (free) Zoom webinar on Artificial Intelligence for Journalists with AI expert and digital guru Sree Sreenivasan. Sreenivasan has been teaching generative AI workshops worldwide for the past year. He was a full-time journalism professor at Columbia University for 20+ years and served as the chief digital officer at Columbia. He is the 2024 president of the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA), which he co-founded in 1994. RSVP to get the Zoom details for this much-anticipated event by emailing spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com.
Contact: Stacie Overton Johnson (spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com) Tagged under: Freelancing, Journalism Training, Webinars, Digital Journalism, Free Events July 16, 2024, 1:00 pm - July 16, 2024, 2:00 pm • SPJ Community (International) International Community Get Together Because the International Community membership is spread out around the world, getting together for a drink or coffee is difficult.
Contact: Dan Kubiske (dan@kubiske.org) Tagged under: Together, Diversity, International Journalism, Students, Educators, Free Events, SPJ Chapters, SPJ Communities, Press Freedom, International Journalism July 17, 2024, 7:00 pm - July 17, 2024, 8:00 pm • Uncategorized SPJ Freelance Community - Monthly Board Meeting SPJ's Freelance community will hold its monthly board meeting. RSVP to get the Zoom details for the meeting by emailing spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com. Website: LinkContact: Stacie Overton Johnson (spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com) Tagged under: Together, Freelancing, Free Events, SPJ Communities July 25, 2024, 12:00 pm - July 25, 2024, 1:00 pm • General Journalism Revenue generation for publishers: Aligning profit with purpose Join Indiegraf and Amanda Zamora for a free Q&A session designed to help independent publishers align their mission with revenue generation. In this webinar, discover how to align your mission with revenue goals, avoid burnout and achieve sustainable growth.
Contact: Montserrat Cortez (hello@indiegraf.com) Tagged under: Together, Ethics, Journalism Training, Webinars, Digital Journalism, Free Events July 26, 2024, 12:00 pm - July 26, 2024, 1:30 pm • General Journalism Design Workshop: How to create compelling visuals when it’s not usually your job In our scroll and skim culture, visuals make or break whether a reader engages with your content. But we don’t all have a graphic design professional on staff to help create compelling images on deadline. If you’re a journalist or communication professional looking to build your design skills, get a head start with our beginner course for designing visuals when it’s not usually part of your job.
Contact: Beth Francesco (bfrancesco@press.org) Tagged under: Freelancing, Students, Educators, Journalism Training, Webinars, Digital Journalism July 31, 2024 • General Journalism The IIJ Freelance Business Workshop Presented by the Institute for Independent Journalists.
Where: Columbia College Chicago, 1104 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA August 2, 2024, 12:00 pm - August 2, 2024, 1:30 pm • General Journalism Tips For Inspired Writing: Lunch & Learn with Steve Padilla Re-energize how you view writing -- and the way you do it -- with tips from nationally sought-after writing coach Steve Padilla. Padilla, who entertained standing-room-only audiences during our Pro Tips writing workshop in 2019, is editor of Column One, the L.A. Times’ showcase for storytelling.
Where: National Press Building, Washington, DC, USA August 5, 2024, 9:00 am - August 9, 2024, 12:00 pm • General Journalism Data Journalism Bootcamp - Google Sheets + Python (In-Person) IRE’s Data Journalism Bootcamp provides a broad foundation in finding, assessing and analyzing data for anyone interested in using these skills in the newsroom. This version of the bootcamp is tailored for people who already have some experience working with data. We'll start with an accelerated overview of using spreadsheets to clean and analyze data, and then introduce Python, a powerful general-purpose programming language that you can use to analyze huge datasets, scrape data from the web, clean and reshape data, extract complex tables from PDF files and much more. We’ll also cover finding data sources, using public records, bulletproofing your analysis and best practices for using numbers in your stories. Attendees are asked to bring their own laptop and pre-install some software prior to the bootcamp. If a laptop is not available, we would be happy to provide one for you. Please reach out to logistics@ire.org to make arrangements.
Where: 401 South 9th Street, Columbia, MO, USA August 14, 2024, 7:00 pm - August 14, 2024, 8:00 pm • Uncategorized SPJ Freelance Community - Monthly Board Meeting SPJ's Freelance community will hold its monthly board meeting. RSVP to get the Zoom details for the meeting by emailing spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com. Website: LinkContact: Stacie Overton Johnson (spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com) Tagged under: Together, Freelancing, Free Events, SPJ Communities August 16, 2024, 1:00 pm - August 16, 2024, 5:00 pm • General Journalism Structuring Your Story: A master class on organizing narrative & breaking news All great stories have a beginning, middle, and end. But organizing a pile of reporting notes, quotes and data can be, well, overwhelming. Just how should journalists tackle story structure, especially with the variety of options?
Contact: Bara Vaida (BVaida@press.org) Tagged under: Freelancing, Students, Educators, Journalism Training, Webinars September 11, 2024, 7:00 pm - September 11, 2024, 8:00 pm • Uncategorized SPJ Freelance Community - Monthly Board Meeting SPJ's Freelance community will hold its monthly board meeting. RSVP to get the Zoom details for the meeting by emailing spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com. Website: LinkContact: Stacie Overton Johnson (spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com) Tagged under: Together, Freelancing, Free Events, SPJ Communities September 26, 2024, 9:00 am • SPJ National Materials and a Zoom link will be posted online prior to the meeting. Website: LinkContact: SPJ (communications@spj.org) November 13, 2024, 6:00 pm - November 13, 2024, 7:00 pm • Uncategorized SPJ Freelance Community - Monthly Board Meeting SPJ's Freelance community will hold its monthly board meeting. RSVP to get the Zoom details for the meeting by emailing spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com. Website: LinkContact: Stacie Overton Johnson (spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com) Tagged under: Together, Freelancing, Free Events, SPJ Communities December 18, 2024, 6:00 pm - December 18, 2024, 7:00 pm • Uncategorized SPJ Freelance Community - Monthly Board Meeting SPJ's Freelance community will hold its monthly board meeting. RSVP to get the Zoom details for the meeting by emailing spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com. Website: LinkContact: Stacie Overton Johnson (spjfreelancecommunity@gmail.com) Tagged under: Freelancing, Free Events, SPJ Communities |